Hah! A story about bats that's *not* about WNS!
In our Sounds Wild series, we're going to the African nation of Gabon with behavioral ecologist Jack Bradbury, from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. Bradbury recorded hammer-headed bats. A foot long and weighing a pound, the males have huge heads, fluted lips and a larynx that takes up over half its body. The males are made to sing — for sex — in a riverside ritual that biologists call a lek.
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